Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…
To what state does the Flower return while enclosed within the letter?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: state · What happens: do, enclose · To what, where: Flower return
This is exam question 3 of lesson 986 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 return | det |
| 6 | Flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | compound |
| 7 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 enclosed | mark |
| 9 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 does | advcl |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 letter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 letter | det |
| 12 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enclosed | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | state | the Flower return | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | enclose | participle | state not said here | within the letter | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A state of light, as before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 light | case |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 state | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 state | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 before | case |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 state | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A state of darkness, as before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 darkness | case |
| 4 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 state | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 state | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 before | case |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 state | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A state of darkness, as before, and silent in the long night of the drawer
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 darkness | case |
| 4 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 state | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 state | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 before | case |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 state | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 silent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 silent | cc |
| 10 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 state | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 night | amod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 silent | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 drawer | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 drawer | det |
| 17 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 night | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A state of darkness, as before, cramped and cold inside the envelope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cramped | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 darkness | case |
| 4 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 state | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cramped | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 before | case |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 cramped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cramped | punct |
| 9 | cramped | cramped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cold | cc |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cramped | conj |
| 12 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 14 envelope | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 envelope | det |
| 14 | envelope | envelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cramped | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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